Can you suggest some idioms or phrases for Be it good or bad? For example:
Be it good or bad, television has become an indispensable part of our lives.
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N.B. It is dispensable. I dispensed of it. – d'alar'cop Feb 27 '14 at 17:51
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1Be it good or bad is an idiom already. – David M Feb 27 '14 at 18:15
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1That's just an archaic version of Whether it's good or bad. It used to be possible to use a fronted infinitive form of be as a mark of a hypothetical clause. In Modern English we use subordinating conjunctions like whether or if to do the same job. – John Lawler Feb 27 '14 at 19:02
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Could native English speakers teach me if "Anyway" is acceptable here? – Michel Merlin Feb 28 '14 at 14:59
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For better or worse is used to say that something cannot be changed, whether the result is good or bad.
